The National Security Agency is creating new processes aimed at making it harder for systems administrators to misuse privileged access to agency systems, NSA officials told the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Tuesday. NSA director ...
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting customers of Verizon Communications. The ACLU's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District ...
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Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were concerned about privacy violations. In a survey conducted just days before reports surfaced about ...
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Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by federal prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked ...
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Businesses that receive a court order for data similar to the one reportedly?handed to Verizon?by an intelligence agency have no choice but to comply and to take comfort in their immunity from lawsuits, an expert says.? In April, the ...
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The National Security Agency has been allowed by a court order to collect phone records of a large number of customers of Verizon, according to a report in the Guardian on Thursday. The April 25 order from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence ...
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A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
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There is ongoing debate among researchers as to the degree of danger associated with texting, handheld phone or hands-free phone use while driving. Now a new study sheds light on which types of distraction has the greatest risk of a crash, ...
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"Technology-Assisted Discovery"--better known as"E-Discovery"--is the cornerstone for the next generation of legal practice.More and more courtrooms are turning to the most up-to-date available to make legal decisions easier and faster ...
Tags: Technology-Assisted Discovery, E-Discovery, civil justice system